I hardly consider myself an artist these days but I understand how you feel.

I used to do comics at one point and my fanbase (of. like. twenty people. yeah. hardly a following) was pretty much nagging me for new ones, I eventually said fuck it and abandoned the series altogether feeling like I wasn't doing it for my own enjoyment.

Agreed. I definitely understand how overwhelming it can be when people make requests. You're just one person / artists. And everything else is just a million upon millions of things that have to be handled one at a time . And it gets so overwhelming that you suddenly burn out due to tediously trying to churn out whatever pieces that have be requested to be made. . Some times they forget that we like to have a chance to go outside, or finish up projects of our own or have massive fun with out feeling overwhelming weight over how many requests that you try to do. And it's not like we have to do all of the requests because we can pick and choose, but because we want to do what no one did for us, especially some of the artists that we admire that kind of shun us, we try to be better and actually give time and thought to each project and request that's taken. I Definitely know the feeling. Not alone on that.

Very relate-able ... I've had all three happen to me :/ and people wonder why I don't do requests but they still ask from time to time even when it says on my page that I don't do requests.Scenario 2 is quite mean for the artist to endure its not their fault the person who requests/ gift, I did a gift for one of my friends before and her first reaction was "The hair is the wrong colour!" .... I'd spend 4-5 hours on that picture and not even a thank you :L As 3 , the artist who does that I ignore or just will not answer until I'm done and then have a little complaint about how many times they asked for the picture in the pictures description when its finally done

mine is the top panel - I did A bunch of free profile art requests on Facebook .. And yeah , each one took 2 days ta do , and when I posted it , all I got was " Wow , Thanks <3 " You get those people , They want you talent and time for Nothing - It is frustrating You said what we are all thinking , Awesome work !!

that last panel just KILLED those people with logic.i really love how you really portrayed this maturely. your approach is humurous and on a level we can all understand, but at the same time its so effective and it gets the point across. c:great job ashley.

Valid reasons to not take requests though. I've never had a problem with it ever, but if you have had previous problems or just choose not to take them, that's your decision, nothing wrong with that. They'll just have to deal with it.

Oh my gosh, this is my life in a nutshell! I get it completely. I hate when people do this. I recently did a commission/request and i worked really hard on it. As soon as I posted it though, all I got were complaints saying, "hey, you forgot his gloves!" "I said I wanted a wicked smirk! Not just a regular smirk!"Yeah -_- So don't you worry about it. I get it.